Yes. - But the next two away games are sold out and you'd imagine Spurs and Wolves will also sell out
Good point. I imagine they will, Barber is not a fan of this behavior. It will be hideous if they don’t.
Next season - aside from Saturday 3pms - all PL games , midweek, Sundays, Friday, lunchtimes, evenings on Saturday will be available to Sky/TNT subscribers. (Sky are showing 215 games next season - 70% more than this season) . TNT are showing 52 matches.
yes. but was on the TV anyway.
Bit after the horse has bolted you'd think - they had years to forestall the rise of illegal streaming by making games more readily available but got lazy, greedy and complacent and now we have a Napster situation that's out of control
Doh ..only just seen the email as it went in my spam folder
This would be hugely damaging for clubs the size of Brighton & Hove Albion.
Hard to say. The club would get revenue they don’t currently get from those games, eg from those who can’t or don’t attend games regularly. What proportion of current regulars would give up their visits in favour of the TV?
Man Utd would have 2m+ UK subscribers.
Also, presuming that quite a lot of people will attend only for the match, the place will be open quite a long time with an attendance far below even that figure. If, say, a bunch of local students turned up at 5.30pm without tickets, hoping to have a few beers and watch the later game, would they be turned away? Surely not. I'm guessing they'll let passers-by in as long as the venue is below capacity.
It might be that they've allocated 400 tickets to sponsors etc.
For me, this sort of place is the physical manifestation of a living nightmare tbh - but I hope it is a big success for those that enjoy this type of experience.
